blue water massey
Well-known Member
Oct. 24
1590 John White, the governor of the second Roanoke Colony, returns to England after an unsuccessful search for the "lost" colonists
1836 The match is patented
1861 The first transcontinental telegraph line across the United States is completed, spelling the end for the 18-month-old Pony Express
1901 Annie Edson Taylor becomes the first person to survive going over Niagara Falls in a barrel
1929 "Black Thursday," beginning of stock market crash
Birthdays:
1788 Sarah Josepha Hale author (Mary Had a Little Lamb)
1838 Annie Edson Taylor, American stuntwoman and educator
1919 Frank Piasecki, American engineer and pilot
Deaths:
1922 George Cadbury, English businessman(Cabury Chocolate)
1944 Louis Renault, French engineer and businessman, co-founded the Renault Company
Thought for the day:
?May your choices reflect your hopes, not your fears.?
1590 John White, the governor of the second Roanoke Colony, returns to England after an unsuccessful search for the "lost" colonists
1836 The match is patented
1861 The first transcontinental telegraph line across the United States is completed, spelling the end for the 18-month-old Pony Express
1901 Annie Edson Taylor becomes the first person to survive going over Niagara Falls in a barrel
1929 "Black Thursday," beginning of stock market crash
Birthdays:
1788 Sarah Josepha Hale author (Mary Had a Little Lamb)
1838 Annie Edson Taylor, American stuntwoman and educator
1919 Frank Piasecki, American engineer and pilot
Deaths:
1922 George Cadbury, English businessman(Cabury Chocolate)
1944 Louis Renault, French engineer and businessman, co-founded the Renault Company
Thought for the day:
?May your choices reflect your hopes, not your fears.?
